OAH Docket No. 12-2500-14980-2
PUC Docket No. PT6153/AM-02-686

STATE OF MINNESOTA
OFFICE OF ADMINISTRATIVE HEARINGS

FOR THE MINNESOTA PUBLIC UTILITIES COMMISSION

Petition of Midwest Wireless Communications, L.L.C. for Designation as an Eligible Telecommunications Carrier Under 47 U.S.C. § 214(e)(2)

SECOND PREHEARING ORDER

This matter came on for prehearing conference before Administrative Law Judge Steve M. Mihalchick on August 20, 2002, by telephone.  The following persons appeared:

Scott J. Bergs, Leonard, Street and Deinard, Suite 2300, 150 South Fifth Street, Minneapolis, MN  55402, on behalf of Midwest Wireless Communications; L.L.C. (Midwest Wireless). 

David A. LaFuria, Lukas Nace Gutierrez & Sachs, Suite 1200, 1111 19^th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036 on behalf of Midwest Wireless.

Linda S. Jensen, Assistant Attorney General, 525 Park Street, Suite 200, St. Paul, MN 55103-2106, on behalf of the Department of Commerce (the Department).

Katherine Doherty, Analyst, Minnesota Department of Commerce, 85 – 7^th Place East, Suite 500, St. Paul, Minnesota 55101-2198 on behalf of the Department.

Richard J. Johnson, Moss & Barnett, PA, 4800 Wells Fargo Center, 90 South Seventh Street, Minneapolis, MN 55402, on behalf of the Minnesota Independent Coalition (the MIC).

Kevin Saville, Associate General Counsel, Citizens Communications, 2378 Wilshire Boulevard, Mound, MN  55364, on behalf of Citizens Telecommunications Company of Minnesota, Inc., (Citizens) and Frontier Communications of Minnesota, Inc. (Frontier).

Lillian Brion, Analyst, Public Utilities Commission, 121 Seventh Place East, Suite 350, St. Paul, MN 55101-2147, on behalf of the staff of the Commission.

 

SCHEDULE

1.               The schedule was modified as follows:

a)    Direct testimony of Midwest Wireless—August 7, 2002.

b)    Reply testimony of other parties—September 17, 2002.

c)     Rebuttal testimony of Midwest Wireless—October 8, 2002.

d)    Surrebuttal testimony of other parties—October 28, 2002.

e)    Hearing—November 4-8, 2002, 9:00 a.m., Commission hearing rooms.

f)      Briefs—December 3, 2002.

g)    Reply briefs—December 10, 2002.

h)     ALJ report—December 31, 2002.

i)       Exceptions to report—January 10, 2003.

j)       Replies to exceptions—January 17, 2003.

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2.               This matter is reassigned to Administrative Law Judge Kathleen A. Sheehy for all subsequent proceedings. 

 

 

Dated this _____ day of August, 2002

 

 

                                                                                    s/Steve M. Mihalchick

                                                                                    STEVE M. MIHALCHICK

                                                                                    Administrative Law Judge

 

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